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Mar 28, 1971 · Taking Off: Directed by Milos Forman. With Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel, Tony Harvey. While searching for their runaway teenage daughter, the parents rediscover the pleasures of life as they get acquainted with a self-help group for parents of vanished children.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Milos Forman
- 1971-03-28
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Larry Tyne and his wife Lynn return home one evening to find that their teenage daughter Jeannie is not there. (Viewers know she is attending an audition, clips from which, with future star performers like Carly Simon and Kathy Bates, recur throughout the film). The Tynes ring the Divitos, with whose daughter Jeannie is supposed to be, but the Divi...
In 1968 Forman obtained a visa to plan a US film. Forman and Ivan Passer arranged a "house on Leroy Street in Greenwich Village"and studied the counterculture there. The plot of Taking Offwas inspired, by a girl found murdered in an apartment not far from that of Forman's residence. A newspaper story reported about "a girl who would leave her afflu...
The film shared the Grand Prix (ex aequo)(second prize) with Johnny Got His Gun at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. The film received six nominations, without a win at the 1972 BAFTAawards: Best Direction (for Forman), Best Film, Best Film Editing (for Carter), Best Screenplay (for Forman, Guare, Carrière, and Klein), Best Actress (for Carlin), and B...
Writing in The New York Times, Vincent Canby declared that "Taking Off is not a major movie experience, but it is — a good deal of the time — a charming one." Variety called it "a very compassionate, very amusing contemporary comedy." However, John Simon wrote- 'I declare Taking Offan antihuman film: mean, arrogant, and thoroughly destructive'.
Until 2008, Taking Offwas not available on home video due to music rights complications. Taking Off was released to Blu-ray Disc, by British company Park Circus, on 7 November 2011 as a Region-2 widescreen Blu-ray Disc and by Gaumont (with Carlotta Films as home video distributor) on March 23, 2011 as a Region-0 widescreen Blu-ray Disc.
Forman, Miloš; Guare, John; Carrière, Jean-Claude; Klein, John (1971). Taking Off. New York: Signet. 1. 1.1. A novelization, with new "scene settings" written by Forman and Nancy Hardin (by 1977, vice president of Paramount Pictures), and an essay by Forman about his life in America and making Taking Off.
Ives, Alexander C. (19 December 2011). "Milos Forman's Taking Off: The Foreigner Seeks to Understand and Laughs". Senses of Cinema.Klein, John (12 May 2018). "Remembering Miloš Forman". The Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 23 October 2023. Taking Off (1971) written by ... John Klein'Taking Off' : list of reviews and criticism from: Reviews and Criticism of Vietnam War Theatrical and Television Dramas, compiled by John K. McAskill, Systems Librarian, La Salle UniversityTaking Off at AllMovieTaking Off bfi.org.ukTaking Off at Rotten TomatoesUnable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.
- Milos Forman, Edward Folger, Phillip Goldfarb
- Lynn Carlin
Jeannie Tyne (Linnea Heacock) has fled her parents and her suburban home to wander around New York City. Sick with worry, Jeannie's mom, Lynn (Lynn Carlin), and dad, Larry (Buck Henry), meet other...
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- Milos Forman
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- Lynn Carlin
“Taking Off” is set in the United States in the late 1960s. Young Jeannie runs away from home to New York City with the hopes of becoming a singer. In New York City she meets a community of hippies and bohemians. Meanwhile Jeannie’s suburban parents search for their missing daughter.
Taking Off, the first English-language film by Czech director Milos Foreman examines a situation involving a runaway teenage girl named Jeannie Tyne (Linnea Heacock) and the desperate search for her by her distraught parents, Larry and Lynn. The parents, played ably by Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin, imagine their daughter has become a casualty of ...
